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Recent Examples of commoner
The former upper-middle-class commoner, who married into the British royal family in 2011, has made sparing public appearances and provided a few progress reports since revealing her diagnosis.
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Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
This, in turn, gave commoners leverage to demand from their rulers increased political participation, equality before the law, and better provision of public goods.
—Andreas Wimmer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
Countless examples from the past emphasize how kings and commoners provided for the Buddha and later monks and nuns by giving land, food and donations.
—Mitch Hendrickson, The Conversation, 29 July 2024
Europe’s competitive and war-prone multistate system drove rulers to extract ever more taxes from their populations and to expand the role of commoners in the military.
—Andreas Wimmer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
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Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
This, in turn, gave commoners leverage to demand from their rulers increased political participation, equality before the law, and better provision of public goods.
—Andreas Wimmer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
Countless examples from the past emphasize how kings and commoners provided for the Buddha and later monks and nuns by giving land, food and donations.
—Mitch Hendrickson, The Conversation, 29 July 2024
Europe’s competitive and war-prone multistate system drove rulers to extract ever more taxes from their populations and to expand the role of commoners in the military.
—Andreas Wimmer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commoner
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May 31 is International Flight Attendant Day, but like us plebeians, most flight attendants circle Black Friday on their calendars first.Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2024
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In the days of the Roman Empire, plebeians and patricians alike entertained themselves by watching men fight to the death.James Grebey, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
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Occasionally, like tonight, a chiseled pleb or square-jawed gym owner will pass muster, taking her to some exclusive club in Tribeca.Seija Rankin, EW.com, 29 Apr. 2021
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But because these monsters have yet to develop any fungal armor, runners are susceptible to gunshots, knives, and any other weaponry that would take out your average pleb.Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 20 Jan. 2023
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Later in the novel, Hans’s mind turns to the brutality of occupation: If in the course of a five-day plan, 200,000 Berliners were removed by 50,000, these 50,000 proletarians would be fused into a collective by the shock of having killed.Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
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As a proudly class-conscious proletarian, Martin is naturally supportive of worker strikes.J. Hoberman, The New York Review of Books, 22 Oct. 2020
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Hartnett’s working-class suburban dad looks like a blandly handsome everyman attending a concert with his 12-year-old daughter, Riley (Ariel Donoghue), and then — bam!Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2024
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There isn’t a whiff of reality to this story, and Hanks is like an alien trying to play an everyman — he’s rarely seemed so uncomfortable and unconvincing. 36.Tim Grierson, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2024
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“Commoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commoner. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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